Mission:
“Through inclusion, there can be education and through education, there can be transformational changes towards creating spaces of excellence and peaceful collaboration. Hear My Voice."
Who We Are:
"Hear My Voice (HMV)," began as an Interdisciplinary project of dedicated students, faculty and staff on and off the campus of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and community members who volunteered to work towards creating a platform of Inclusion in March of 2016. It became a Registered Organization on May 1 of 2016. As an RO, the supportive team includes staff, faculty, and students from across campus and disciplines. Building and expanding the learning space, additional content for this web collaborative project is also supported by students in an Independent Study Course that partners with Hear My Voice (MDIA 290 Section HMV) and an Introduction to Multimedia class that examines and performs leadership development and de-marginalization under the direction of Dr. Janice Marie Collins from the College of Media and the Institute of Communications Research.
The structure used for HMV is called Active Centralized Empowerment (ACE). ACE is based on Collins' 14 years of teaching, studies, research and 30 years of professional experience. A.C.E. is a new pedagogical style that transforms learning spaces of oppression into positive, empowering spaces of critical thinking and freedom. Inclusive within its framework, A.C.E. directly challenges spaces of Marginalization. More than power in the margins-it is Movement from the margins to Empowerment. It’s one of the best ways to teach the person, who happens to be a student, and the teacher who happens to be a person.
The structure used for HMV is called Active Centralized Empowerment (ACE). ACE is based on Collins' 14 years of teaching, studies, research and 30 years of professional experience. A.C.E. is a new pedagogical style that transforms learning spaces of oppression into positive, empowering spaces of critical thinking and freedom. Inclusive within its framework, A.C.E. directly challenges spaces of Marginalization. More than power in the margins-it is Movement from the margins to Empowerment. It’s one of the best ways to teach the person, who happens to be a student, and the teacher who happens to be a person.
Defining Marginalization
Marginalization: Treatment of a person, group, or concept as insignificant or peripheral.
Example: U.S. police officers have shot and killed the exact same number of unarmed white people as they have unarmed black people: 50 each. But because the white population is approximately five times larger than the black population, that means unarmed black Americans were five times as likely as unarmed white Americans to be shot and killed by a police officer. The surge in the cases of police officers killing unarmed African Americans initiated the Black Lives Matter Movement. Research has revealed that African Americans, especially, African American males are perceived as being armed, committing an unlawful act, and violent. In many cases, this perception is a misperception which can be viewed as a premeditated act of racism.
The Equal Pay Act requires that men and women in the same workplace be given equal pay for equal work.
Based on the data trend since 2001, AAUW researchers have determined that it will take more than a century, until 2152, for the pay gap to close.
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) prohibits discrimination against people with disabilities and guarantees equal opportunities for individuals with disabilities in employment, transportation, public accommodations, state and local government services, and telecommunications.
Americans with disabilities are hired less frequently and receive less pay and in some cases, accommodations are not adequate.
Example: U.S. police officers have shot and killed the exact same number of unarmed white people as they have unarmed black people: 50 each. But because the white population is approximately five times larger than the black population, that means unarmed black Americans were five times as likely as unarmed white Americans to be shot and killed by a police officer. The surge in the cases of police officers killing unarmed African Americans initiated the Black Lives Matter Movement. Research has revealed that African Americans, especially, African American males are perceived as being armed, committing an unlawful act, and violent. In many cases, this perception is a misperception which can be viewed as a premeditated act of racism.
The Equal Pay Act requires that men and women in the same workplace be given equal pay for equal work.
Based on the data trend since 2001, AAUW researchers have determined that it will take more than a century, until 2152, for the pay gap to close.
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) prohibits discrimination against people with disabilities and guarantees equal opportunities for individuals with disabilities in employment, transportation, public accommodations, state and local government services, and telecommunications.
Americans with disabilities are hired less frequently and receive less pay and in some cases, accommodations are not adequate.
*HMV is partially supported by the Chancellor's office, Office of the Provost, the Committee on Race and Ethnicity (CORE), and Dr. Assata Zerai, Associate Chancellor for Diversity.
*HMV is an independent entity and reserves the right to decline any submissions or suggestions. *HearMyVoice and HearMyVoiceonline.com has no political affiliation or any other affiliation with any societal or cultural organized entity.
*HMV is an independent entity and reserves the right to decline any submissions or suggestions. *HearMyVoice and HearMyVoiceonline.com has no political affiliation or any other affiliation with any societal or cultural organized entity.